Covered box



(No Model.)

S. PALMER.

COVERED BOX.

No. 584,270. Patented June 8. 1897.

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UNTTED STaTns STEPHEN PALMER, OF LANSINGBURG, NE\V YORK.

COVERED BOX.

SPECIFTOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,270, dated June 8,1897. Application filed January 21, 1896. Serial No. 576,255. (Nomodel.)

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Be it known that I, STEPHEN PALMER,a citizen of the United States,residing at Lansingburg, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covered Boxes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improve ments; and it consists of thenovel construction and combination of parts hereinafter de scribedandsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and theletters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure l of the drawings is a view in perspective of one of my novelcovered boxes with a hand holding the same in position to force thecover therefrom. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in section, of my improved boxand cover separated and inverted in the relative positions which theyare caused toassume in the operation of placing the cover on the box.Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a portion of the box and cover.

My improved box and cover are especially adapted to form an inclosurefor paste-blacking or other substance to be removed there from andapplied by means of a brush.

The box A is preferably formed from a single piece of sheet metal by theuse of suitable dies, and comprises the body part A of generalcylindrical or slightly flaring form, terminating in a flaringguard-flange A projecting upwardly and outwardly from the upper end ofthe body part.

The box is adapted to be grasped by the hand at its body part, and whenso held the hand is protected from the brush and its contents in use bythe overhanging flaring flange. The flange A is provided with a die-cutsharp edge A adapted to engage and seat upon and within the cover 13.

The cover is preferably die-formed from a single piece of sheet metaland formed with an interior seat 13 for the box-flange and with a topguard-flange B above and a side and bottom guard-rim B outside of andbelow the seat B.

The operation of placing the cover upon the box is most convenientlyperformed by placing the cover in an inverted position upon a planesurface or support, as shown in Fig. 2,and applying the box held by itsbody part in the hand in an inverted position from above, whereby it isnot necessary to apply the hand to the cover, and the box is fullyseated by being forced downwardly into the cover-recess.

In the operation of removing the cover the covered box is held in aninverted position, the body part being grasped between the thumb and thesecond, third, and fourth fingers of the left hand, while the index orfirst finger is applied to the rim of the cover to force the same fromthe box. is thus pushed from the box it is permitted to fall to thefloor, table, or other support, where it naturally assumes an invertedposition adapted to again receive the box-flange.

It will thus be seen that the box is frequently caused to assume aninverted position, and should the contents of the box shrink or contractfor any reason they would tend to fall from the box asitis thusinverted. Such a result frequently happens in the use of the ordinarytin box for paste-blacking. Partly to prevent such a result I haveprovided the body part of the box with one or more indentations 13*,forming interiorly-projecting flanges which contract the diameter of thebox between the bottom and the flaring flange and prevent the escape ofthe contents of the box as long as they remain integral. Such aconstruction enables me to permit the walls of the body part to flaretoward the open end of the box, thereby facilitating the die-formingprocess. By providing two such indentations on opposite sides of the boxI afford thereby convenient seats for the thumb and fingers in graspingand holding the box during the operations of re moving and applying thecover. IVhen desired, such indentations may be so prolonged as to extendentirely around the box in the form of a groove, as indicated by dottedlines in Fig. 2.

The cover is so formed that the box-seat thereon is located whollyinside of a straight line, connecting the extreme edges of the topguard-flange and the rim, as shown in Fig. 3.

It will thus be seen that the flange and rim As the cover willeffectually protect the portion of the cover forming the seat fromengaging external objects and being marred or indented, so as to preventthe box-flange from being properly seated.

The guard-rim is preferably retroverted to form a marginal gutter B inthe cover, as shown.

I am aware that the particular form of marginal gutter is not new, andalso that a seat for the edge of the open top of a box-body has beenprovided between two flanges formed in the cover, and that the body ofboxes has been provided with an annular bead, and none of these mattersare claimed, broadly, herein. My improvement requires the body of thebox to be flared outwardly at its mouth. By thus flaring the body-wall Iam enabled to die-cut the flange at an acute angle to the plane of theflare and to thus secure a sharp and true bearing edge which when sprungagainst a suitable seat will make a tight joint. Such a seat isfurnished by the angular formation at B, and the construction is suchthat the before-described true edge is in practice held in the angleformed by a die at B and held midway between the walls inclosing saidangle. The joint thus formed is far more efficient in preventing thepassage of fluids than an ordinary joint between box and cover. Toprovide for maintaining the true form of these parts and to preventbending, marring, or indenting them, I employa retroverted gutter B Thisinsures that the edge of said flange, which is its mostexposed part,shall not be bent under the flaring box edge and lock the cover to thebox; and as made and claimed by me this edge extends sufficiently faroutwardly to pend off blows from the angular seat B, whereby the trueform of the latter is protected. My improvement consists in thesecooperatin g parts, as hereinafter pointed out.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a box,forn1ed from a single piece of metal andcomprising an approximately cylindrical body part having oppositeindentations to facilitate manipulation and prevent the escape of thebox contents, said body part terminating at the open end of the box in'adie-formed flared guard-flange having an edge die-cut at an angle to theplane of the flare, of a cover having a seat B for said die-cut edge ofthe box-flange and a guttered U shaped rim adapted in use to extendbelow the edge of said flange, substantially as described. 7

2. The combination with a box,formed from a single piece of metal andcomprising an approximately cylindrical body part terminating at theopenend of the box in a die-formed flared guard-flange having an edgedie-cut at an angle to the plane of the flare, of a cover having a seatB for said die-cut edge of the box-flange and a guttered U-shaped' rimadapted in use to extend below the edge of said flange substantially asset forth.

3. The combination with a box,forme'd from a single piece of metal andcomprising an approximately cylindrical body part terminating at theopen end of the box in a die-formed guard-flange having a die-cut edge,of a cover having a seat B for said die-cut edge of the box-flange and arim extending in use outside a line drawn from the exterior edge of theupper plane of the cover to the exterior of the seat for the saiddie-cut flange whereby said seat is protected substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day ofJanuary, 1896.

' STEPHEN PALMER.

Witnesses:

FRANK C. CURTIS,

F. M. MABIE.

